Marius was with them in church reports the local paper in Asker www.budstikka.no he sat next to his mother and held his brother for parts of the service. Budstikka also reports Ingrid had truble sitting still for the service and did some walking around in the church before Haakon got her. The services on x-mas eve in Norway is so called Family services, that is rather short, with little preaching and mostly singing, there are always alot of children although maybe not as small as Sverre

Lille Ma is not a new nick name it has been there from the beginning, I dont like it as it reminds me of the sour creature Lille My in the popular (in scandinavia) childrens books about Mummi Trollet

thanks for clearing that up, Larzen.i may've misunderstood when i read some articles.I hope we get more pictures of the christmas eve and christmas day.i think last year, there're more coverage during the cristmas than this year.

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Crown Princess Mette-Marit was smiling broadly as she tenderly cradled her
three-week-old son at Asker Church, near Skaugum Palace to the south east
of Oslo. His sister, two-year-old Princess Ingrid, proved herself something
of a Daddy's girl when Crown Prince Haakon carried her into worship, alongside
her older brother Marius, who's eight.
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On Christmas Day it was the turn of Haakon's sister, Princess Martha Louise,
to show off her family at Holmenkollen Chapel in the hills above Oslo. She arrived
for prayers with her husband Ari Behn and their elder daughter, two-year-old Maud
Angelica.
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__________________Today the world has embraced new royal Princesses in the form of Mary of Denmark and Maxima of the Netherlands. But it's questionable whether even these hugely popular, increasingly glamorous future Queens will ever capture the world's imagination in the same way as Diana.As Mario acknowledges: "She really was a true Princess".-www.theroyalist.net-